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‘The Right to Privacy in the Digital Age’ – for the Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights

Raymond Johansen July 8, 2018 July 8, 2018

Dr. Keith Goldstein, Dr. Ohad Shem Tov, and Mr. Dan Prazeres – April 9, 2018 Presented on behalf of Pirate Parties International Headquarters, a UN ECOSOC Consultative Member, for the Report of the High Commissioner for Human Rights Our Dystopian Present Living in modern society, we are profiled. We accept the necessity to hand over intimate details about ourselves to proper authorities and presume they will keep this information secure- only to be used under the most egregious cases with legal justifications. Parents provide governments with information about their children to obtain necessary services, such as health care. We reciprocate the forfeiture of our intimate details by accepting the fine print …

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Pirates at the United Nations

KG May 25, 2018 May 25, 2018

On May 21st and 22nd, a group of five pirates from around the world visited the United Nations Headquarters in New York for the 6th Biennial High-level Meeting of the Development Cooperation Forum (DCF). This was the first meeting we attended as a designated consultative member of the ECOSOC committee. The event featured discussions from numerous prominent parliamentarians and NGO leaders. Representatives from the US Pirate Party and Pirate Party of Israel attended on behalf of Pirate Parties International Headquarters: Liz Gorski (USPP), Ohad Shem Tov (PPIL), Joe Klein (PPWI), Meg Cochran (USPP), and Keith Goldstein (PPI/PPIL). Most of the discussions at the event focused on development of the so-called …

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Call for Offers – Pirate Parties International Conference 2018

Thomas Gaul May 2, 2018 May 2, 2018

PPI Conference 2018 Pirate Parties International would like to receive offers from entities that would like to host our yearly General Assembly. Below you will find our formal requirements. The deadline for sending in the offers is 01.07.2018. The conference should take place in the 4th quarter of 2018. Completed offers as well as additional questions can be sent to the PPI board and will be published on this page. Milestones: 01.05.2018 – publishing the call for offers 01.07.2018 – deadline for applications 02.07.2018 – online conference with all offers/public offer opening. 05.07.2018 – discussion of submitted offers 07.07.2018 – begin of voting by PPI members after the offer approval …

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Eight years! – Pirate Parties International

Thomas Gaul April 17, 2018 April 17, 2018

Eight years! – Pirate Parties International What a long trip it has been since the creation of PPI eight years ago! So many people voluntereed and contributed to the development of this unique global NGO. The current board would like to acknowledge and thank everyone for their contributions and their work towards the development of PPI. Where are we at 8 years later? PPI has become a global player. We are a consultative member of the UN ECOSOC committee and an observer at the World Trade Organisation (WTO). Having developed a broad network of supporters has enabled us today to broadcast information to over 20 million people. With the Think …

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Letter from the Pirate Party of Slovenia – Pirate conference and upcoming election

Raymond Johansen April 15, 2018 April 15, 2018

Hello fellow Pirates! Slovenia is holding parliamentary elections on the 27th of May or 3rd of June! There will be a referendum about the construction of a railroad line (don’t ask) just before that – on May 13th. The Pirates will naturally be running on this election. We’re poling at 3.5% (the threshold for entering the parliament is 4%) and our polling agent tells us that our biggest problem is that we have a lot of support, they’re just too passive to vote. The state of PPSI We’ve been active for 8 years. We’ve attended the 2014 EU elections (2.3%), the 2014 National elections (1.36% – we got ~80k EUR …

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Pirate Party of Europe – Congratulations

Thomas Gaul April 13, 2018 April 13, 2018

After some troublesome years for the Pirate Party of Europe good news come this year. After trying to get registered as an entity for years the efforts of the newly elected board had been rewarded. The Pirate Party of Europe is finally registered in Luxembourg. We congratulate the board for this great achievement and we are sure this has been the first succesfull step of many.

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The right to privacy in the digital age – Call for Volunteers

Thomas Gaul March 23, 2018 March 23, 2018

There is a call for papers from the UN for a report on “the right to privacy in the digital age” – Deadline: 9 April 2018. We would appreciate any assistance towards submitting a 2500 word document. Let’s crowdsource and try to make the deadline. A copy of the full call for papers is available at: http://www.ohchr.org/EN/Issues/DigitalAge/Pages/ReportPrivacy.aspx Please try to think of literature or empirical examples that can be used to strengthen our arguments. It is very important that we put forward a statement on such an important topic in a formal international forum. If you are interested to volunteer with this work, please contact the board